Syrian church leaders are advising Christians to scale back Christmas celebrations this year, despite assurances from the Islamists who have just taken power that they are free to practise their religion.

U.S. diplomats visiting Damascus held Washington's first in-person official meetings with Syria's new de facto rulers led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham on Friday and discussed with the former al Qaeda affiliate the future of Syria's political transition.

The Pentagon announced the US currently has “approximately 2,000” troops in Syria, more than double the previously disclosed number of 900, a Defense Department spokesperson said at a press briefing on Thursday.

Assad’s ouster has raised urgent questions about the 2,000 troops who serve as a bulwark against ISIS and Iran.

A Syrian Air flight from Damascus landed in Aleppo on Wednesday, as the transitional government tries to demonstrate its ability to run the war-shattered country.

He became a staff photographer in October 2003, taking up base in Jordan before becoming chief photographer out of Beirut two years later. He has covered conflict in the Middle East for nearly 30 years,

The first U.S. diplomats to visit Syria since President Bashar Assad's ouster earlier this month are in Damascus to hold talks with the country's new leadership and seek information on the whereabouts

Since 2011, the weaponization of regional and global supply chains through economic sanctions has devastated Syria’s economic and social activities.

Family members and friends of thousands of missing Syrians are continuing their search for those disappeared by former President Bashar Assad's regime.

The Damascus International Airport reopened on Wednesday with a domestic flight to Aleppo, signaling that Syria’s new rulers are confident in their ability to govern after the end of the Assad family’s rule.

A photograph of Hakan Fidan and Ahmed al-Sharaa on Syria’s Mount Qasioun recalled a decade-old tweet foreshadowing the fall of Assad